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Early Childhood Webinar Series
We’re excited to announce that the Early Childhood Webinar Series will continue in 2026. With a focus on mathematics in early childhood education, these sessions are designed to support your professional learning and explore how maths can be thoughtfully embedded in play-based and emergent curricula. Bringing together current research and practitioner expertise, each webinar will spotlight a key aspect of early childhood mathematics, offering practical strategies, fresh insights, and inspiring examples to help you notice, nurture, and extend mathematical thinking through everyday play.
Webinar Two: Supporting Emerging Mathematical Drawing
Young children’s early drawing development reflects their cognitive emergence of drawing as a representational tool in mathematics learning during the first few years of school. Mathematical drawing supports problem solving development and lays the critical foundation for the communication and the creation and comprehension of the many diagrams used in mathematics (and STEM). This session provides an overview of phases of development and shares ways in which children’s drawing development can be supported through playful experiences, encouragement and guidance.
Associate Professor Jennifer Way is a specialist in early childhood and primary mathematics, and STEM education at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on representations in mathematics, particularly embodied representations and drawing development.
Registrations close 12th February 2026
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